The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-02
AN INDIAN CLERGYMAN.
Rev. Kali Churn Chatterjee Pays 6
Visit to st. Louis.
From the Missouri Republican.

From the Missouri Republican.
Rev. Kali Churn Chatterjee, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Hashyapur, India,
is in the city, stopping at Hotel Beers. His
wife and little girl are with him. He was a
commissioner to the Northern Presbyterian
| general assembly, recently held at Omaha,
and is on his return trip, making his way to
the Atlantic coast, where he will take ship
in about three months for his far-away
home. Yesterday afternoon he visited DR..
s. j. Niccolls, took tea with DR. j. IL.
Brookes in the evening and afterward at
tended prayer meeting at DIR. Brookes'
church. when he addressed the congrega-
ton. In this address he urged Christian
workers to select India as their missionary
field Of labor.
The preacher was seen by reporter at
Hotel Beers. He is tall and erect, with skin
almost black, hair a trifle gray and beard
tinged with gray, and reaching to his waist.
He said: "India has a population of 252,-
000,0 900. These are divided up into Mahomet-
ans, Hindoos, Christians and few other
sectS We have 100000 native-born Chris
tians of our own people, and about 100000
foreigners whoare Christians. England has
about GO, 900 soldiers in India, and they are
counted as ChristianSalso. No Hindoo ever
accepts Buddhism in India. There are no
DutluIllSIS Ill llNIt, dDUlbuSu billS was OuNC
the home of Buddha. Our people receive
the missionaries fairly well, and have more
confidence in them than most any one else.
1t generally takes a missionary two years
TO learn our language sufficiently to make
an address in it, although many OF our in
situations of learning are English and a
missionary can begin to teach as soon as he
gets to our country"
How do You like America"
sources of America. You have he0e such
variety of soil and mineral wealth. Every
thing impresSes one, besides, as being new.
Many of your products are raised success
fully in our country, such as wheat, rice,
sugar-cane, Indian corn, etc. The growing
grain and extended plains of Kansas re-
minded me very much of India"
'How do our educational and social sys-
TEN impress youf'
II like your educational system, and
think the public school great blessing: but
it seems little strange to me TO see boys
and girls being educated in the same col
lege as did in Kansas. This may have
some advantages, and | am not yet prepared
TO say whether it is better or not than our
system in this regard. But one thing |
think is inevitable where such a system is
in vogue, and that is that the young ladies'
become more masculine and lose to GER
Jtin eAuellb UnelT uenlleT leHhLlflB ulSDOSl-
ton; but it may make them more indepen-
dent. | think they are different from
English women in this one re-
spect. Your social system has
an air of the same. freedom
that one might naturally suppose would fol-
low such system of education. There is n
freedom, a rush and hustle about Ameri-
can life that very muchs impreSses me.
Your houses are built directly on the
streets, and there seems to be no privacy at
ALL | should think that man in building
a S50,000 house could certainly secure a
quiet place, where he would not be gazed at
by every passer-by. In your railroad trains
you have a common sleeper for both ladies
and gentlemen. You have what you call "A
conductor, also, who takes the tickets as the
train runs In India our train men stand
at the stations and take the tickets from
the people as they enter You never see
one come through the train"
"What do you think of our Democratic
government =
For myself would prefer a limited mon
archy. 1t seems productive of better so
cal system and other desirable things, as
well. but have not seen as much of your
great country as | want and expect to see
before | return want to find two young
men to take back with me, one to teach
mathematics and one natural science in one
of our institutions of learning"
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